Holmes: Jed Hoyer 'loves to kick things down the road'
While the Cubs have had a disappointing season, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer remains supremely confident in the overall health of the organization.
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00:00Jed loves to kick things down the road.
00:04Loves it.
00:06You can't just write off a season
00:08like it's a losing quarter for a business.
00:12That's how he talks about it.
00:15And it's like if there were things
00:19that you were hoping that he would have picked up
00:22and I get that they are always, as a group,
00:25whether it's Theo and Jed or Jed and Carter,
00:29as a group, that they do like to keep
00:31the long-term in focus,
00:34but I wish he would have picked up the idea
00:37of every opportunity is precious.
00:41And you had an opportunity and you didn't go for it.
00:45And these are the types of results that you get.
00:47I also think that,
00:50I wonder how they're going to look at their own evaluations.
00:55That's why I asked Carter the last time he was on.
00:58Maybe your course is the wrong course.
01:03And what things do you have in place
01:05that will allow you to really examine yourself
01:10and your approach to team building
01:14that won't allow this to be the case going forward?
01:20And them continuing to talk about the hot streak
01:24that happened last year.
01:26Well, we're kind of past the point
01:28where that started for the team last year.
01:31It was also a trap.
01:32It's a trap.
01:33It also led them to invest in something
01:37that probably wasn't worth it.
01:38They did not rise to that investment,
01:42to that stamp of validation.
01:44And they didn't meet it halfway.
01:46They said, we believe in you, we believe in you,
01:47we believe in you.
01:48Oh, gee, we're going to lose a bunch of games
01:50and our manager's fired.